2014 Oscar Winners

Now that it’s all said and done, this year’s Academy Awards ceremony ended largely as expected. ’12 Years a Slave’ won Best Picture, ‘Gravity’ swept the technical achievements, and Matthew McConaughey gave an utterly incomprehensible acceptance speech. How did you do in your Oscar pool? Read this post if you’d like a shot at winning ’12 Years a Slave’ on Blu-ray.

The only Best Picture nominee I’ve actually seen, ‘American Hustle’, was shut out of every category where it was nominated. How is it that this movie wasn’t even in the running for the Best Makeup and Hairstyling prize? It should have won that for the opening scene alone.

All in all, I guessed 15 of the 24 categories correctly, which is pretty good for me. In fact, as an impromptu contest, for the first of our readers who can guess exactly which 15 categories I predicted, I will personally buy you a copy of Best Picture winner ’12 Years a Slave’ on Blu-ray. You get one and only one chance at this. You must name all 15 categories in one comment at the end of this post, and you can only make one attempt.

I’ll suspend our normal rule prohibiting people who’ve won other contests within the past year. However, other normal contest guidelines apply. The contest is only open to entrants from the domestic United States. Employees of this site or Internet Brands are not eligible.

You have until the end of the day today, Monday, March 3rd. I’ll announce the results in the Comments to this post tomorrow. If no one guesses correctly by the deadline, no prize will be awarded.

[Update: Sorry, folks. The deadline has expired and there were no winners.]

In the meantime, here’s a rundown of which movies actually won Oscars last night:

Best Picture

’12 Years a Slave’

‘American Hustle’

‘Captain Phillips’

‘Dallas Buyers Club’

‘Gravity’

‘Her’

‘Nebraska’

‘Philomena’

‘The Wolf of Wall Street’

Winner: ’12 Years a Slave’

Best Director

Alfonso Cuaron, ‘Gravity’

Steve McQueen, ’12 Years a Slave’

Alexander Payne, ‘Nebraska’

David O. Russell, ‘American Hustle’

Martin Scorsese, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’

Winner: Alfonso Cuaron

Best Actor

Christian Bale, ‘American Hustle’

Bruce Dern, ‘Nebraska’

Leonardo DiCaprio, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’

Chiwetel Ejiofor, ’12 Years a Slave’

Matthew McConaughey, ‘Dallas Buyers Club’

Winner: Matthew McConaughey

Best Actress

Amy Adams, ‘American Hustle’

Cate Blanchett, ‘Blue Jasmine’

Sandra Bullock, ‘Gravity’

Judi Dench, ‘Philomena’

Meryl Streep, ‘August: Osage County’

Winner: Cate Blanchett

Best Supporting Actor

Barkhad Abdi, ‘Captain Phillips’

Bradley Cooper, ‘American Hustle’

Michael Fassbender, ’12 Years a Slave’

Jonah Hill, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’

Jared Leto, ‘Dallas Buyers Club’

Winner: Jared Leto

Best Supporting Actress

Sally Hawkins, ‘Blue Jasmine’

Jennifer Lawrence, ‘American Hustle’

Lupita Nyong’o, ’12 Years a Slave’

Julia Roberts, ‘August: Osage County’

June Squibb, ‘Nebraska’

Winner: Lupita Nyong’o

Best Animated Feature

‘The Croods’

‘Despicable Me 2’

‘Ernest & Celestine’

‘Frozen’

‘The Wind Rises’

Winner: ‘Frozen’

Best Foreign Language Film

‘The Broken Circle Breakdown’ (Belgium)

‘The Great Beauty’ (Italy)

‘The Hunt’ (Denmark)

‘The Missing Picture’ (Cambodia)

‘Omar’ (Palestine)

Winner: ‘The Great Beauty’

Best Original Screenplay

‘American Hustle’

‘Blue Jasmine’

‘Dallas Buyers Club’

‘Her’

‘Nebraska’

Winner: ‘Her’

Best Adapted Screenplay

’12 Years a Slave’

‘Before Midnight’

‘Captain Phillips’

‘Philomena’

‘The Wolf of Wall Street’

Winner: ’12 Years a Slave’

Best Cinematography

Roger Deakins, ‘Prisoners’

Bruno Delbonell, ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’

Philippe Le Sourd, ‘The Grandmaster’

Emmanuel Lubezki, ‘Gravity’

Phedon Papamichael, ‘Nebraska’

Winner: ‘Gravity’

Best Production Design

’12 Years a Slave’

‘American Hustle’

‘Gravity’

‘The Great Gatsby’

‘Her’

Winner: ‘The Great Gatsby’

Best Costume Design

’12 Years a Slave’

‘American Hustle’

‘The Grandmaster’

‘The Great Gatsby

‘The Invisible Woman’

Winner: ‘The Great Gatsby’

Best Documentary Feature

’20 Feet from Stardom’

‘The Act of Killing’

‘Cutie and the Boxer’

‘Dirty Wars’

‘The Square’

Winner: ’20 Feet from Stardom’

Best Documentary Short Subject

‘CaveDigger’

‘Facing Fear’

‘Karama Has No Walls’

‘The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life’

‘Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall’

Winner: ‘The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life’

Best Short Film, Animated

‘Feral’

‘Get a Horse!’

‘Mr. Hublot’

‘Possessions’

‘Room on the Broom’

Winner: ‘Mr. Hublot’

Best Short Film, Live Action

‘Aquel No Era Yo’ (‘That Wasn’t Me’)

‘Avant Que de Tout Perdre’ (‘Just Before Losing Everything’)

‘Helium’

‘Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa?’ (‘Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?’)

About Josh Zyber

Josh Zyber is a veteran movie and video disc reviewer from Laserdisc to DVD and beyond. He's previously written for DVDFile.com, DVDTalk.com and Home Theater magazine. These days, he wastes most of his free time managing this blog and writing the occasional Blu-ray review for High-Def Digest.

17 comments

Timcharger

1. Best Picture
2. Best Director
3. Best Animated Film
4. Best Adapted Screenplay
5. Best Costume Design
6. Best Production Design
7. Best Original Song
8. Best Film Editing
9. Best Cinematography
10. Best Sound Editing
11. Best Sound Mixing
12. Best Visual Effects
13. Best Makeup and Hairstyling
14. Best Original Screenplay
15. Best Actress

1)Best Picture
2)Best Visual Effects
3) Best Sound Editing
4) Best Original Score
5) Best Original Song
6) Best Film Editing
7) Best Costume Design
8) Best Production Design
9) Best Animated Feature
10) Best Director
11) Best Original Screenplay
12) Best Adapted Screenplay
13) Best Actress
14) Best Supporting Actress
15) Best Actor

William Henley

Chris

Best Picture
Best Director
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Animated Feature
Best Foreign Language Film
Best Original Screenplay
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Cinematography
Best Film Editing
Best Original Song
Best Sound Editing
Best Sound Mixing
Best Visual Effects
Best Makeup and Hairstyling

By the way, you have it incorrectly listed as Dallas Buyers Club winning Best Original Screenplay, but I assumed you predicted Her, which actually won.

I picked 18 correctly, but missed the “big” one, as I thought GRAVITY would pull a late-in-the-game upset.

Winners this year were rather predictable (as always), but the show was pretty good. Ellen’s opening monologue was rather bland, but once she went out into the crowd, things got really fun…the selfie photo and ordering pizza (then collecting for the tip) might be the funniest thing I’ve ever seen at the Oscar. There’s something quite entertaining about forcing celebs to act like ordinary people.

…and shame on Leo DiCaprio for not playing along “I don’t want any pizza!” 🙁

William Henley

I saw part of it. Ellen was being Ellen, which is always fun (ie she acting like she has stage fright). I pretty much watched most of the opening monologue, really didn’t have any interest in the rest of it. I truthfully just don’t care anymore. About the only Awards show I may watch is Kid’s Choice, mainly just because it is fun watching celebs get slimmed.

David Staschke

1. Best Picture
2. Best Actor
3. Best Actress
4. Best Supporting Actor
5. Best Director
6. Best Song
7. Best Original Score
8. Best Animated Feature
9. Best Sound Editing
10. Best Sound Mixing
11. Best Visual Effects
12. Best Adapted Screenplay
13. Best Original Screenplay
14. Best Production Design
15. Best Cinematography

Shout92

1. Best Picture
2. Best Director
3. Best Actor
4. Best Actress
5. Best Supporting Actor
6. Best Animated Feature
7. Best original Song
8. Best Cinematography
9. Best VFX
10. Best Sound Editing
11. Best Sound Mixing
12. Best Makeup and Hairstyling
13. Best Production Design
14. Best Costume Design
15. Best Foreign Language Film

William Henley

If it makes you feel any better, I honestly was thinking along those lines, and very nearly chose Documentary Short. I never would have guessed Hair and Makeup, though, especially after he menitoned his choice wasn’t even nominated.

David Staschke

Someone explain to me why racism seems so alive and well even today? I strongly believed that 12 Years a Slave would get Best Picture strictly out of fear of retribution had it not won. And as expected, it did.
I did not watch the Oscars but the highlights had Degeneres making a comment as well to the tune it better with or else we’re all racists. Wtf?

It doesn’t matter though – look at the past 30 years of Best Pictures. I think I have seen maybe half of them, and of that half enjoyed less than I can count on one hand.

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